EXPLAINING THE PLAN . . . Erica Geddes, project development manager for airport terminal i addresses Castlegar city council on the proposed $3.5 million for Castlegar airport. AIRPORT EXPANSION continued trom front poge Geddes said if approved by Ottawa in the next few months, a final expansion design will be completed this summer. She said work could begin as early as this November. Construction would take some 18 months, with completion scheduled for spring 1988. Geddes pointed out that the expansion has been divided into five separate projects: upgrading the airport “apron” (the paved area in front of the terminal building where & new water system; installing a Terminal expansion itself; and this July. The water and electrical work will also begin this summer. Work on the carpark and landscaping will not begin until the terminal construction is fini: |. Construction of the carpark is expected to take eight months, with completion scheduled for the end of 1988. Geddes said the terminal expansion was being based on the foreeast hourly number of deplaning and enplaning passengers in 1991 “and has been confirmed by airline needs.” “We expect it would last well into 2000,” she said. She added that the major airlines have app the LIONS CLUB CONSIDERS MAJOR PROJECT Geddes pointed out that PWA would not support the earlier proposal. Geddes also added: “Castlegar is our number one priority” of the 10 air terminal projects planned in the ministry's Pacifie Region. Moore also questioned the future of the restaurant. She wondered if it will still be located in a trailer adjacent to the terminal. Geddes said the restaurant would be left in the trailer unless there was a feasible proposal to locate it in the building. “We are open to suggestions,” added Ken McTaggart, manager of Plight Services at the airport. “The plan is-not etched in granite yet.” Ald. Albert Calderbank questioned possible security problems with the new terminal design, noting that passengers will be able to reach the aircraft through a small door in one of the airlines’ holding rooms. But Dave Bachynski, acting manager of Airport Services Division, said the door would have to be locked, and only opened by airport personnel who knew the combination. Calderbank also pointed out that present airport security inside the terminal is “pretty poor.” “Anybody can go in with anything,” he said. “Their equipment, to say the least, is pretty pathetic.” "Expansion plans. Pacific Western Airlines’ approval had been a major stumbling block to the expansion. PW A opposed rental rates for. the new terminal building. Instead, PWA has indicated that it will undertake its own renovations to its current leased space. Mayor Audrey Moore noted that the $3.5 million expansion is sealed down from the $6 million facility ynski said Tr + Minister Don Mazankowski is “cognizant” of airport security, especially in light of recent world events. et “You can be sure that security is’ number one’ in everybody's mind these days,” he said. Calderbank also questioned who would do the construction work at the airport, noting the recent issue of local hiring and fair wages. Mayor Audrey Moore pointed out that a fair wage By CasNews Staff The Castlegar-Selkirk Lions Club is considering taking on another major community project with money made from this year’s West Kootenay Trade Fair: Publicity coordinator Frank Stasila said the Lions are looking at three possible projects: @ a therapeutic whirlpool for Castlegar Hospital an Easter Seals bus for the handicapped and senior citizens @ a donation to the proposed Castlegar aquatic centre. “I don't know which one they're going to go to,” Stasila said. “We want something to serve all the people in the community.” Stasila said an aquatic centre was one of two projects the Lion# considered when the trade fair first started 10 years ago. However, members opted to the development of Kinnaird Park instead. , He added that the Lions participation in funding the uatie centre “depends on the costs.” “ Stasila also pointed out that the move to fund a major project reverses a trend over the last two years when the local Lions funnelled donations to small community services. ‘ He said the Lions haven't had a major project since the Kinnaird Park was finished two years ago but donated profits from trade fair to groups such as the Castlegar library, West Kootenay Infant Development Centre, and camp operated by the Canadian National Institute for the Blind Stasila also said $2,000 from the 1985 trade fair went to cover the loss incurred on last year's Lions Club Rodeo, As well, the club has committed itself to help a local family whose son must travel to Vancouver's Children's Hospital every three months for a blood transfusion. a “We're going to pick up his travelling expenses, Stasila said. He said most of the club's profits are made on the door admission — that's the reason for the $3 charge per adult. : Ninety per cent of the fees commercial exhibitors is used to pay the community complex rental and advertising, he said. a “We rely on the public to come in for the profit. from TRADE FAIR continued trom tront pege “You are always seeking new ideas,” he says, adding that the danger of a trade fair is that it becomes taken for granted. With that in mind, Stasila says, the trade fair wants to attract a carnival. “We have tried to get a carnival” for the last five years, Stasila says. But one carnival contacted by the Lions Club is American and wary of Canadian motor vehicle regulations. “ The other has a traditional schedule which simply doesn't coincide with the West Kootenay Trade Fair. Still, Stasila is optimistic about the carnival. “One of these years it will come about.” Stasila also says the Lions are also considering combining the annual rodeo with the trade fair. And the trade fair’s success has caught on in other communities. Stasila says he helped initiate a trade fair in Castlegar,” he said. “We had a sellout . . . the place was jam packed.” Castlegar he said. “We had a sellout . . . the place was jam packed.” The Nipiwan fair is now in it's third year and getting stronger. sy The Castlegar Lions also helped the Creston Kinsmen Club get its first trade show off the ground earlier this month. And the Kelowna Kiwanis Club is staging a trade fair with help from the local Lions. FRANK STASILA seeks new ideas For the first time in its 10-year history, this year’s trade fair is headed by a trio of co-chairmen: Rod Clifford, Steve Jankola and Terry Ackney. Trade fair chairmen through the included: 1977 — Walter Tymofievich 1978 — Alex Cheveldave 1979 — Frank Stasila 1980 — Carvile Moorey 1981 — Walter Holuboff 1982 — Walter Popoff 1983 — Rod Clifford 1984 — Ted McAfee 1985 — Jerry Krull. years have SIX IN-ARROW DISTRICT proposed in 1981. clause is included in all federal contracts. Language courses back Castlegar school board Monday gave «significant boost to language education the district by voting unanimously to reinstate French and Russian second language programs at the Grade 5 level in the 1986-87 school year. The board will complete the reinstatement in the 1987-88 school year by adding the Grade 6s to the program. But the reinstatement of the language programs will probably cause cuts in other programs, board chairman Kay Johnson warned the other trustees before they voted on the motion to bring back the language programs. “If this motion is passed, then something else will be cut,” Johnson said. “I want everybody to understand that. There's no money in the budget for anything new.” ‘The board's decision fol- lowed lengthy debate on whether to bring back both the Grade 5 and 6 program in the coming school year and on the wording of the motion, which states the programs will be reinstated “where enrolment warrants.” The trustees decided to ‘postpone the Grade 6 pro- gram for a year because the current Grade 5 classes in the district have not had lan guage training. But trustee Doreen Smecher wanted the board to specify an enrolment level before approving the rein. statement of the program. However, district superin- tendent of schools Terry Wayling told Smecher, “I'm not sure you can put a number on that.” Wayling explained that the enrolment level at which the program may be reinstated will vary from school to school. “It’s more a function of staff availability,” he said. “The enrolment situ- ation at Tarrys (elementary school) may be different than at Kinnaird elementary.” Trustee Rick Pongracz agreed, saying staff at each school will know whether to try to implement the pro- gram. “The caution is there that staff shouldn't dream up a program if the numbers aren't there,” Pongracz said. Wayling added that the Tesponse among parents to the reinstatement has been “very, very good.” The trustees were also adamant that the second lan NEGOTIATIONS BREAK DOWN gauge programs, although they may cause cuts to other programs, will be staffed in- dependently of other pro- grams such as teacher prep- aration time and library time. “Last year, these pro grams were dependent on prep time to keep the pro- grams running,” Pongracz said. “When that was taken back, the programs went with it. This time, the program is on its own.” The board's decision last year to suspend the French and Russian second language programs for Grades 5 and 6 as a cost-cutting measure aroused strong criticism from distrjct parents. reinstatement of the program was at the top of nearly every parents’ group list Of priorities for the dis- trict, Nurses plan strike vote District Hospital will take a strike vote May 21 along with other members of the British Columbia Nurses’ Union. Nurses at 135 hospitals and long-term care facilities will decide whether to strike. According to a prepared release, the union's move fol. lows Sunday's breakdown of negotiations with the Health Labor Relations Association. The two sides had been meet ing since mid-March, after an eight:month recess in media tion that began last year The nurses’ previous con tract expired March 31, 1985. Their last wage increase, amounting to 2.1 per cent, came more than two years ago. Citing major wage dispar. ities with other provinces, the BCNU has rejected the HLRA package of a three. year contract with no in crease in the first year, one per cent effective April 1, 1986 and two per cent effec. tive April 1, 1987 The wage offer was made at weekend meetings between the BCNU and the HLRA “We hope this proposal of ours will form the basis of a settlement with the nurses.” Peter McAllister, HLRA president said in a prepared release “We have further meetings scheduled (today), Thursday and Friday with the mediator and we would like to resolve our differences at the bar. gaining table,” he said The proposal from the HLRA would continue both the master agreement and Tong-term care standard col lective agreement through March 31, 1988. The proposals represent a Compensation Stabilization Program cost to the health care industry of 1.07 per cent for 1985-86, 2.07 per cent for 1986-87 3.07 per cent for 1987-88, M.Allister said. “This represents a cost to this industry over the term of the agreement in excess of $20 million,” he added. But Pat Fraser, negotiator for the 16,000-member BCNU, says a better offer is possible. Fraser said the HLRA is demanding that nurses agree to reduce existing benefits. “This is the employers’ price for better wages, and even for contract changes with no cost implications at all.” Fraser warned that the HLRA’s position threatens a nursing shortage in a prov. ince historically dependent on nurses trained elsewhere. “It is already hard to staff some nursing areas in B.C.,” she said. “Soon it will be im: possible.” The starting rate for B.C. registered nurses is $12.85 an hour. It is $14.32 in Ontario and $13.65 in Alberta. Forest fires reported By CasNews Staff and News Services The Arrow Forest District has reported six forest fires since the start of the forest fire season April 15. The blazes have ranged from spot fires to “a couple of hectares,” according to a forestry spokesman. All the fires have been started by man — “grass burners,” said the spokesman. Costs have been estimated at about $2,500. Officials say conditions in B.C. are more severe than last year when more than 3,500 forest fires burned 241,000 hectares or half the area of Prince Edward Island. Fire fighting cost the provincial government a record $120 million. This year only one region in B.C. — the north Thompson River region — has above normal precipitation, said Hank Doerksen, provincial director of forest protection. In almost all other parts of the province the drought flags are up and fire conditions are high to extreme. “Going into the fire season this time, there are worse conditions than last year,” Doerksen said. “But if we suddenly end up with a bunch of April showers and some June rains that could be alleviated.” Rains have helped ease the fire situation in the Arrow District, a ministry spokesman said. The Columbia Valley was the focus of much of the attention last year. There, 11 major fires burned in July forcing evacuation of the town of Canal Flats and threatened evacuation of Kimberley Much of the timber burned in that area is within the cutting licence of Crestbrook Forest Industries Ltd. Spokesman John Dutton said the company had a bad year financially, but it was not as a result of the fires. The fires did mean the company, with the blessing of the provincial Forests Ministry, has instituted a master salvage plan that involves accelerated cutting and milling to make use of the burnt timber. Dutton said the salvage should be completed by spring of 1987, barring disruptions by any more fires. In the Kimberley area, Norm McLeod said the winter has been spent trying to protect the watershed that provides drinking water for the town. To do that McLeod said about $250,000 has been spent doing whatever possible to prevent large quantities of earth from sliding down steep, burnt mountain slopes into Matthew Creek, including aerial grass seeding Reforestation in this area is not necessary except in the wet areas along streams, McLeod said. The lodgepole pine is the major species in the area and the problem with it, he said, will be thinning it, not planting it. Lodgepole pine is a species that requires the extreme heatof forest fires for the cones to release the seeds. Feds grant extension By CasNews Staff The federal government offer to buy $69 million in preferred Cominco shares has been extended to May 15, Kootenay West MP Bob Brisco said Tuesday. Brisco told Castlegar council that the proposed agreement — which will help Cominco proceed with its $250 million lead smelter modernization — has been scrutinized by company and govern ment officials. He said the documentation is now ready to go to the federal Treasury Board for approval. Calderbank said. Moore said. airport. said. “I don’t think there will be any delay at the Board evel,” Brisco said. Brisco was at council to discuss a number of longstanding local federal municipal issues. Ald. Albert Calderbank expressed concern about fire safety regulations at the Castlegar Airport. Calderbank said certain scheduled carriers have been landing without any fire protection — contrary to Ministry of Transport regulations. Mayor Audrey Moore added that it appears the airlines are “flaunting” ministry regulations. “They should be enforced more,” Castlegar that week. Brisco conceded he didn't know about the issue, but would look into it. “We are quite concerned about it,” Brisco also pledged to look into a firefighting training facility for the Calderbank said airport presently use a parcel of land at the airport as a fire training ground. Area fire departments would like to use the area as a training ground, he IMMERSION continued trom tront pege At a press conference last week in after meeting with the Castlegar school board, Hewitt singled out Russian immersion as an example of a program uriique to Castlegar that Ea should be funded by local taxpayers. Asked after Monday's meeting if the Castlegar school board would goto the Ri local taxpayers to fund Russian immer. sion, trustee George Anutooshkin said would be determined at the board's budget meetings starting this In addition, Calderbank said ihe five departments will need funding to help construct a training building Brisco also confirmed that he is “vehemently opposed” to any plan to close the airport tower. “You can be assured that I'm going to fight this right down the line,” he firemen said The Nielsen Task Force Report on government spending recommends the closure of four airport towers across the country, including the one in Castlegar. Castlegar TREET TALK THE LARGEST fish ever caught on the Arrow Lakes was hauled in Sunday, according to Scottie Tait. Tait, owner of Scottie’s Marina, says the 9.6 kilogram (21-pound 1'/-ounce) dolly Varden was caught at Broad. water on the Arrow Lakes. The fish, which measured 95 cqptimetres (37.5 inches) was caught by a Castlegar area man who asked to remain anonymous. RICH HYNES HAS come home. Hynes is the new owner of MacLeods, taking over from Harry Stan. But Hynes is no newcomer to Castlegar. He lived here prior to moving to Grand Cache, Alta. where he owned a MacLeods store for the last two years. Married with two daughters, Hynes worked 15'/ years with Westar Timber in Prince Rupert and Castlegar. NELSON ALD. Sharon Heflin says it's not such a “wild and crazy” idea — Steve Martin coming to Nelson to film a movie, that is. Heflin says she spent Sunday afternoon showing someone connected with Martin's next film project around Nelson. She wouldn't say who. Apparently, the filmma. kers want a location with a lot of Victorian architec- ° ms 7 ture, though the film isn't STEVE MARTIN set in Victorian era. . -+ film in Nelson? Dave Martin, owner of the Heritage Inn, says he showed one of the out-of-town visitors around his basement-level Boiler Room and the room “really appealed to him.” IT’S WOOD TICK time again. Dr. Monty Arnott, director of the Central Kootenay Health Unit, has issued his annual advisory about wood ticks. Arnott notes that the western wood tick most commonly found in this area can cause muscle paralysis which may result in death “though this is rare.” He suggests examining children each night, particularly in hairy areas such as the base of the scalp. “ | of the dded tick can be lished by gentle pulling. Care should be exercised to ensure removal of the head of the tick,” he adds. GOLD CAP AWARD . . . Alex McKinnon of Westar Timber's Celgar Pulp Operations Award to Perry Minnich. Minnic esents Gold Cap avoided serious head injuries by wearing his hardhat. NELSON HAS another new business. It’s the Nelson Seafood Market. The market opens tomorrow under the ownership of Reb Felske. UNDER THE Better Safe Than Sorry column comes this note from Westar Timber’s Celgar Pulp Operations: Perry Minnich was working in the mud filter building recently when an old piece of steel fell and hit the side of his hard hat. The piece of lime encrusted steel was lying on top of a beam left behind from a previous job. When Minnich positioned his ladder, the ladder knocked the steel piece off the beam and it fell five to seven metres, hitting his hat. Minnich was given Westar’s Gold Cap Award’ for wearing his hardhat. TUESDAY NIGHT'S Castlegar council meeting was ‘a marathon 3": hour session, so it was no surprise that things got a little crazy toward the end. That's when Ald. Carl Henne reported on his attendance at a multicultural workshop in Trail. Henne extolled Castlegar's multiculturalism. “I don't think any other community quite has the rapport we have here,” he said. Henne added that he travelled to the workshop with Pete Ogiow and (turning to Ald. Terry Rogers, a teacher) “your heavyset school teacher.” Henne waited for Rogers to help him out with the name of the “heavyset” teacher. Despite the late hour, Rogers was alert enough to retort: “You don't think I'm going to touch that one?” Phillips to speak at meeting By CasNews Staff The Castlegar Expo 86 Committee should know by the middle of May whether its application for a $200,000 Expo Legacy grant to expand the library has been ap- proved, Mayor Audrey Moore said Tuesday. By CasNews Staff Commissioner of critical industries Art Phillips and Spokane Mayor Vicki Mc Neill are two of the featured “I can't answer that right now,” Anutooshkin said. “We may get money from the: fund for excellence. We'll have to get money from any means possible.” . during the meeting, Anu tooshkin said the board cannot put an actual cost on the expansion of the ian immersion until it knows who will. be teaching the program. The salary of the teacher will depend on his or her seniority and whether the program will be run as a half-day or full-day program. speakers at the Association of Kootenay-Boundary Mu nicipalities annual general meeting April 24-26. Jackie Drysdale, mayor of Rossland, said Tuesday 95 delegates have registered for the meeting so far, but she anticipates as many as 150 will attend the meeting In addition to Phillips and McNeill, other speakers in clude Graham Bruce, mayor of North Cowichan and the chairman of the Union of B.C. Municipalities task force on forestry, and a representa- tive of the B.C. Aviation Council who will discuss municipal airport liability. A kick-off reception will take place Thursday evening with Phillips scheduled for 1 p.m. Friday and McNeill slated as the dinner speaker for a banquet Friday. Saturday morning will be devoted to business sessions dealing with the resolutions of members, Drysdale said The AKBM represents 26 municipalities in the Central Kootenay, Kootenay Boundary and East Kootenay regional districts. NEW IN TOWN? LET US PUT OUT THE MAT Joyce 365-3091 Connie 365-7601 Moore told Castlegar coun. cil that Jim Hewitt, minister responsible for the Expo Legacy Fund, promised to From respond to the application by May 15. Moore said she, Castlegar library board members Sue Port and Jane Lippa, and li- brarian Pat Livingstone met with Hewitt last week on his visit to Castlegar to meet with West Kootenay school boards. The four took Hewitt on a tour of the library and Moore said Hewitt agreed “If any a Pony L (4 speed)* 5 door Hatchback specially priced for a limited time only! *On Approved Credit THE 5995 SPRING SPECIAL! Freight, Predelivery Inspection and Tax extra. 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